[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Some more ideas) – PART 9

Some Mycroft A.I. Ideas I developed over time It has been a while now since I came into contact with Mycroft A.I. Till then I have been playing around with it and started the blog post about how to create your own Personal A.I. Assistant blog series. I will shortly continue with that blog series,
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing HASS) – PART 8

On to installing Home Assistant on our device. Like with the KODI installation, this is mostly information widely available on the internet, yet again included within this series for compleness sake. So let’s get started with installing the dependencies if not yet installed. (Not really sure anymore, sorry for this) Next we need to create
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing & Configuration) – PART 4

We have identified all the software requirements and we have ordered the goodies. Now it is time to start installing the different components and start the configuration of all different packages. After following this installation instruction we should have a basic system up and running with the latest MyCroft version using the ReSpeaker microphone array
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MyCroft A.I. – The Software Stack

The MyCroft AI core stack consists of multiple software packages that are connected by the core stack. For example, every part of the voice assistant is handled by his own piece of “expertise”. In this blogpost will will give an better explanation of those different parts of this core stack. Under the hood Precise –
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MyCroft AI – Open Source Voice Assistant

MyCroft AI – The world’s first open source voice assistant was created and launched by a startup with the same name. The company MyCroft was set up in 2015 with the aim; “AI for everyone” open source installable on every piece of hardware from computers, to refrigerators, wearables, TVs, cars and so on. What is
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (The software stack) – PART 3

With the base system hardware decision out of the way, we need to decide which software we are going to use. In this blog post we are going to talk about which underlying OS we are going to use. Which Home Automation software package to use and for the “Heart” of the whole system, which
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (How I see it) – PART 2

In my previous post I wrote about my ideas to automate my home with an important part to be a A.I. personal assistant. There are smart speakers out there that can be used to do more, but my vission is to have it all in one device if possible.  So in this post I would
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (HASS / GA / Alexa / MyCroft) – PART 1

For a long time I have been looking at how I want to automate my house. One of the MOST important part of that automation, for me would be a voice controlled personal assistant (A.I) that can do ANYTHING I ask it to do. Over the last few weeks I have looked at many software
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